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For the Manics tour, in support of the band's 10th studio album Postcards From A Young Man, Trimby chose a PRO6, supplied by UK rental company SSE Audio, for more than 50 dates worldwide.

Midas' biggest achievement, according to Trimby, has been to design a digital board which retains an analogue feel and, of course, the renowned Midas sound. "It's laid out very intuitively," he says. "Everything's only one or two button pushes away, whether you're hitting a channel or hitting the EQ button. You can manoeuvre yourself round the board very quickly. The pre-amps, probably the most important pa

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Sharing the stand with Baldwin Boxall are Laauser & Vohl, Soundtube and Barth Acoustic. While supping on a drop of Harvey's Real Ale, visitors will be able to view and discuss the latest products available from each of the companies.

Amongst the picnic tables and bar stools, there will be demonstrations of the VIGIL EVAS voice evacuation system (complete with touchscreen and VoIP control), OmniCare emergency voice communication system and ranges of loudspeakers from Barth Acoustics and Soundtube.

(Jim Evans)

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Designed primarily as a live mixing console, an optional Firewire interface provides the Studiomaster Digilive 16 with extensive sound recording and production capabilities. Developed from the ground up, utilising an entirely new proprietary DSP mix platform, the Digilive 16 incorporates an extensive array of production features and system expansion options; rackmount expander modules provide for extension of th

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Last summer, LOCOG announced the appointment of Danny Boyle as artistic director of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, and a team of executive producers led by Steven Daldry to oversee the Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies in 2012.

Now roles within the London 2012 Ceremonies Team working at Three Mills Studios in East London are being advertised on the London 2012 website.

Creative roles include producer of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, head of audio visual, head of costume, head of casting and design studio manager. Applications must be made by 23 February 2011 for these roles.

Bill Morris, LOCOG directo

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The PRO9 package, supplied by Victoria-based Midas distributor National Audio Systems, tops the Midas PRO Series and features a massive 88 channel input count and 35 buses, with the dual stage boxes offering placement flexibility up to 200m apart and 500m from the FOH position.

Production Works CEO Tony Miller comments, "The PR09 gives us identical features to the PRO6 but with expanded input channels live on the surface. This allows us to tackle larger theatre shows and concert events without the need for multiple consoles. Twenty four extra live channels make a big difference when you have 30 or so radio microphones, and a large chorus or choir with a 30 piece orchestra. Now everything is condensed onto

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"We are delighted to welcome ArKaos to the ULA Group family of products" says ULA Group's managing director, Cuono Biviano. "ArKaos software is a world leading standard of media management technology and complements our VuePix LED screen range. The brand is well established and has a great reputation throughout Australia with its media server technology being utilized for many high-end productions and projects. We are glad to have the opportunity to work

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Davidson, who is multilingual, has enjoyed a distinguished career in network systems for broadcast and live applications, both in North America and Europe. He arrives at Optocore from Advantech Wireless, where he was selling satellite uplink and downlink equipment as well as networking systems.

He says he is relishing the challenges ahead. "The company has great technology and a strong foothold in the broadcast, live and fixed installation markets. The potential is huge and I'm really excited - I'm sure we can grow the company exponentially."

(Jim Evans)

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"As distributors of microphones, audio interfaces and other related studio products, acoustic products from Primacoustics is a great fit to our product portfolio," commented Dino Drimakis, business development manager at Melody House.

He added, "although we have had great success with off the shelf acoustic products like recoil stabilizers, room kits, bass traps and more, we see great potential for bespoke solutions."

(Jim Evans)

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Designed primarily as a live mixing console, an optional Firewire interface additionally provides extensive recording capabilities, while 16-channel 19-inch rackmount expander modules provide for up to a 48 channel mix system. Console features include 16 motorised faders, hi-resolution TFT colour display and scene recall of all functions.

Specially developed ultra-low distortion EQ filters and analogue sounding compressors, 24-bit / 96kHz Delta-Sigma AD/DA converters, and four 4th generation 32/40-bit floating-point SHARC processors ensure that sound quality is of the highest order,

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Eurovision Latest - X Factor twins Jedward have become Ireland's next Eurovision entrants with the song Lipstick. The duo beat four other acts on RTE's Late

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The 2011 ride will rev up and burn off from the National Theatre on 18 June and the event will climax on 25 June at Alexandra Palace.

Motorbike enthusiasts from the industry are invited to join in, feel the wind in their hair and raise money for TTG, either on a daily basis or for the whole engine-revving week. Information

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Produccion Audio is exhaustive in its judging process; the first stage is a readers' vote via the internet to draw up a shortlist of three nominees for each category. From these a panel of judges makes the final decision.

"The magazine appoints the judges, a selection of the great and good from all corners of the Pro Audio industry in Spain," explained Rosello. "Th

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FOH sound engineer Paul Ramsay who has worked with the band since 1996, has specified a d&b J-Series system with d&b B2-SUBS for the euro tour which visits a range of large theatres and arenas.

Ramsay is mixing the show on the original Midas XL4 console that Entec bought when they first supplied audio for the band in 1996.

While he's a big fan of digital consoles and the DiGiCo brand in particular - he used an SD7 for the 2010 festival run, also supplied by Entec - he felt that the XL4 was and still is spot-on for the band. "Both consoles sound amazing," He says, "The SD7 has a very analogue hands-on feel about it and in fact on the summer run with this board I reckon I got stunning results. However I

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Richard will take over as Technical Editor of Lighting&Sound International magazine from James Eade, who has helped the PLASA Media team steer the technical content of L&SI for the past nine years. Lee Baldock, editor of L&SI since 2004, said: "James has made a huge contribution to the technical content of L&SI over the years, while still running his own successful business, e-Mech. I personally would like to thank him for all his help and guidance over that

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The Denon DN-MC6000 is a twin controller and integrated mixer with native control for TRAKTOR Pro and Virtual DJ 7. The new device provides control of all four decks in TRAKTOR Pro with Denon's switchable dual layer controllers; visual deck colour change indicates the deck currently being controlled.

The DN-SC2000 is a "highly affordable throw in the bag" portable compact TRAKTOR Pro controller. Advanced features include MIDI mapping capability, auto loop function, a wide range of EFX, rugged pitch slider, pitch

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Designed to meet the needs and standards of professional athletes, the focus of Sørmarka is also on improving public health for children and young adults through increased physical activity. The main sound system and automation for the Sørmarka facility was designed and programmed by Norsk Lydteknikk AS. with installation by Profitek AS. Using a total of 95 Community R-Series loudspeakers, the arena is the largest indoor installation of Community in Norway to date and comprises 15 R2-

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Elevate Church prides itself on its musical performances and audio visual displays during services and it was vital to cater to the high quality audio demands on and off the stage. The church, which can hold up to 300 worshipers during a service, was equipped with Line Array subs QLB118, Line Source Units QL1215 PANO and Versio VL12 as monitors. The digital controller amplifiers DA 428 with extensive DSP functionality drive the entire system.

Professional Audio Technology's technology director Tony Fitzsimmons comments, "We are extremely satisfied with the performance and clarity of the new system and, what is equally important, the client is very happy with their buying decision. We recommended

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The system was configured into two L/R hangs of 12 K1s and three Kara modular line source cabinets for down-fill flown beneath six K1-SBs, and two side arrays of 10 K1s beneath six K1-SBs for far field coverage at both sides of the stadium. It was driven by LA-RAKs housing L-ACOUSTICS LA8 amplified controllers.

"This is a milestone and a revolution for the rental business in the Chinese market," says Danny Lau, managing director of L-Acous

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The training also demonstrated the huge demographic and varied customer base embraced by the MOTIF range, occupations represented included music teachers, lawyers, church organists and GPs with skills ranging from beginners to advanced, says Yamaha.

Hosted by Yamaha's Chris Irvine and Bert Smorenburg the events have now also developed into in-depth 'try before you buy' events with a percentage of attendees not being Motif owners pre-event and happy owners post-event. Guest artist was Rihanna's keyboard player Hannah Vasanth.

(Jim Evans)

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V1.8's most significant new feature is a sophisticated scene safes system, developed in response to engineers' feedback. It allows users to set up scene recall safes with any combination of channel processing, mix processing, faders, gains, mutes and DCA's. Additionally, new scene auto-increment options enable easier cue-based scene changes.

More Compressor types have been added under manual and auto modes. These include 'peak-based' manual, 'RMS-based' manual, 'P

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After a short introduction about the history of HK Audio the seminar got straight to the point. Elements, the new sound reinforcement system of HK Audio was presented with all its advantages and user benefits and discussed by all participants in detail. An extensive listening session in the HK Audio demo theatre gave the 30 participants an opportunity to experience the sound quality and performance of Elements under real life conditions. The second day featured an extensive factory tour.

"Approximately 600 dealers display and sell HK Audio products throughout Europe and convince their customers with their competence and knowledge. Excited consumers are the basis for their and a

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The five-date tour comprises shows in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bangalore. Foreigner are being joined on stage by Indian musician Niladri Kumar, the young Electric Sitar (Zitar) maestro who is opening each performance.

Sound.com are utilising their 48 channel rack of ARX MSX 48s for Mic and Line Splitting between the Digidesign Venue Front of House console and Yamaha PM5D-RH monitor console being used on the tour.

Sound.com are one of India's largest and most active audio production companies has recently supplied audio production and crew for events including the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, Oman's Tattoo & 40th National Day Celebrations and the 2010 IPL Award

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"The system is faultless," says Harley. "The response is immaculate and the build quality superb. I've used my stageClix 'Jack' for a hundred shows or more last year, at venues including small, acoustic-set halls right up to outdoors at the Isle Of Wight and Glastonbury festivals. I had problems for many years with wireless guitar equipment. But I hate leads rolling under my feet and was determined to keep on hoping for the real thing to come along. Eventually, I was introduced to stageClix. Worries over."

Guitarist Robbie Gladwell (Dr. Robbie) is also using the 'Pack' beltpack version in the band, and guitarist/violinist Barry Wickens joins Steve in using his own 'Jack' system on his guitar.

(Jim Evans)